RAS oncogenes: Weaving a tumorigenic web

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 761-774

  Pylayeva Gupta, Yuliya ^a   Grabocka, Elda ^a   Bar Sagi, Dafna ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; GELATINASE A; GELATINASE B; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTOR; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN BCL 2; RAS PROTEIN; UROKINASE; VASCULOTROPIN A;

ACTIN POLYMERIZATION; ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ALLELE; APOPTOSIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE PROGRESSION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SPREADING; COLORECTAL TUMOR; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPLICATION; DOWN REGULATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GLUCOSE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METASTASIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE H RAS; ONCOGENE K RAS; ONCOGENE N RAS; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; GENES, RAS; HUMANS; MUTATION, MISSENSE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS;

EID: 80054856209     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3106     Document Type: Review

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